HOCKEY HALL OF FAME ADDS FOUR -- Patrick Roy, who had more career victories than any other N.H.L. goaltender, and Herb Brooks, the coach of the Miracle on Ice team that won gold at the 1980 Winter Olympics, were inducted yesterday into the Hockey...

BY now, you've probably heard about, if not seen, ''Miracle,'' the sports movie that transcends sports. It's the story of how Herb Brooks's cold-blooded coaching forged the 1980 United States Olympic hockey team that upset the Soviet Union and won...

The milky morning sunlight showed snow that had fallen overnight in the hours after the statue was unveiled. The flakes rested on the upraised arms of Herb Brooks and on the top of the wingtip shoe on his right foot. The Brooks statue stands near...

February 8, 2004, Sunday

Herb Brooks b. 1937 Herb Brooks is most famous for coaching a single hockey game -- the upset victory of the United States team over the Soviet Union in the 1980 Olympics. His Olympic success earned him stints in the N.H.L. -- with the Devils,...

Herb Brooks, who molded an unheralded collection of United States hockey players, most of them collegians, into the ''Miracle on Ice'' team that captured the gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics, died yesterday in an auto accident north of the...

FOR more than two decades, whenever I've been asked about the best story in my more than a half-century of writing about sports, the answer has been quick: the 1980 United States Olympic ice hockey team that upset the Soviet Union and then rallied to...